Beta Changelog

See what's new in CANVID Beta with our changelog, covering all updates, improvements, and bug fixes.

3.1.0-beta.4

Features

  • Added a Loupe tool to the screenshot editor for magnifying areas with adjustable zoom and rectangular or circular shapes.
  • Expanded screenshot text editing with resizable text boxes, font and style controls, alignment, colors, and editable labels for arrows, rectangles, and circles.
  • Added screenshot save destinations, folder controls, and prompts to save unsaved changes before closing or starting a new capture.
  • Added an optional, more efficient screen and region capture method on Windows, available from Recording settings.

Improvements

  • Improved local AI Speech Edit with a new on-device voice model, clearer generation progress, cancellation support, and longer text input.
  • Improved the first processing run for newly created AI Webcam avatars by preparing their cache during creation.
  • Improved recording performance on demanding capture settings by preserving hardware encoding when possible.
  • Existing projects with camera layouts now show the camera layout timeline row automatically, while projects without layouts keep it hidden.

Fixes

  • Fixed cutting and restoring transcript selections that overlap clip boundaries.
  • Fixed cloud transcripts splitting words around apostrophes or hyphens and dropping punctuation, including spaced punctuation and languages without spaces between words.
  • Fixed deleting or transcript-cutting the final clip causing the editor to crash or leave an empty timeline.
  • Fixed recording startup errors so they provide clearer guidance and prevent recording when the selected webcam is unavailable.
  • Fixed projects and tray commands failing to open correctly when the app window was closed, hidden, or minimized.
  • Fixed invalid rounded-corner geometry causing camera or screen content rendering issues.
  • Fixed a playback cleanup error that could occur after video decoding failed.

3.1.0-beta.3

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the app was trying to load non-existent files

3.1.0-beta.2

Features

  • Added copy and paste for Zoom and Camera Layout timeline segments using keyboard shortcuts or timeline context menus.

Improvements

  • Improved initial app loading performance
  • Improved Account settings so cloud credits and cloud storage options are hidden when they are not available or applicable.
  • Improved localized mixer text so labels, error messages, and progress messages render more consistently across languages.

Fixes

  • Fixed Privacy Areas being unavailable on macOS and non-intel hardware.
  • Fixed the recording UI getting stuck on the stopping screen when a recording session could no longer be finalized.
  • Fixed an issue where labels on disabled timeline items wouldn't hide when collapsed.
  • Fixed a preview stability issue that could cause the editor to crash after the GPU or WebGL context was lost.

3.1.0-beta.1

Features

  • Added Camera Layouts, so you can change camera visibility, placement, size, and full-screen or picture-in-picture behavior across timeline segments.

Improvements

  • Improved camera background processing so AI background removal and replacement stay better aligned in preview and export.
  • Improved transcription error states, including clearer feedback when no speech is detected.
  • Added tooltips to compact crop and aspect ratio controls.

Fixes

  • Fixed a recording crash that could happen when pause, resume, or stop events arrived while recording was still starting.
  • Fixed timeline shortcuts not working while a range settings sheet was open.
  • Fixed Compress Cuts failing when a cut was placed at the very beginning or end of the timeline.
  • Fixed Camera AI background processing being disabled in rare scenarios.
  • Fixed preview stability issues related to resizing and cursor rendering.

3.0.0-beta.15

Features

  • Added an Account page in the settings dialog for a better overview of your account, current plan, cloud credit balance, and cloud storage usage.

Improvements

  • Minor improvements and updates to the AI Speech Edit dialog.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Region capture from starting after selecting an area.
  • Fixed automatic transcription starting after recordings without microphone audio.
  • Fixed adjacent text segments being split incorrectly in transcripts for languages that do not use spaces between words.
  • Fixed the AI Speech Edit selection slider and audio playback position falling out of sync.
  • Fixed existing app settings not being carried forward

3.0.0-beta.14

Improvements

  • Enabled support for non-intel platforms for adding privacy areas
  • Renamed Replace Audio to AI Speech Edit and simplified UX

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where system sound couldn't be enabled when using region recording
  • Fixed an issue where the region selection could be wrong on Mac when using certain monitor configurations
  • Fixed an issue when using local transcription for non-spaced languages (i.e. Thai)

3.0.0-beta.13

Features

  • Added Region capture and Take a Screenshot options directly to the source selection screen.
  • Added a Privacy Filter tool in the screenshot editor, with black, blur, and pixelate styles for hiding sensitive areas.
  • Added the ability to directly record and create a reusable AI webcam template.

Improvements

  • Refreshed the capture source selection UI for display, window, region, and screenshot workflows.
  • AI Webcam now remembers the selected processing mode (Cloud/Local) and the last-used avatar/template tab.
  • Various improvements for privacy areas such as improved auto detection and column detection.

Fixes

  • Fixed issues with cloud based transcription to improve timestamps and avoid hallucinations.
  • Fixed the microphone selector audio visualizer to use the currently selected device.
  • Fixed Compress Cuts for projects that do not contain audio sources.
  • Fixed Region capture and screenshot capture flows so the app hides during selection, restores correctly after selection, and handles canceling cleanly.
  • Fixed the window recording hotkey so it opens the window selection modal.
  • Fixed auto subtitles on record so generated subtitles are applied after recording.
  • Fixed cursor positioning for Region capture on secondary displays.
  • Fixed AI Webcam options not persisting between uses.

3.0.0-beta.12

Fixes

  • Fixed a styling issue with selected text items in the privacy regions dialog

3.0.0-beta.11

Improvements

  • Improved the first run speed for voice generation and transcription on Intel Panther Lake hardware
  • We now prevent recording early if your system doesn't have the necessary codecs (Windows N OS)

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where cut markers could cause the audio wave form to look incorrect
  • Fixed an issue where cut markers could cause words in captions to disappear
  • Fixed an issue where the auto-selection notification could block other UI elements in the privacy area selection dialog

3.0.0-beta.10

This beta adds screenshot styling controls, improves privacy detection, and includes fixes across recording, playback, transcription, and editing.

This beta adds screenshot styling controls, improves privacy detection, and includes fixes across recording, playback, transcription, and editing.

Features

  • Added neutral gradient presets and custom gradient color controls to the screenshot editor.
  • Added privacy detection for masked credit cards and associated CVC codes.
  • Added a new setting to automatically transcribe after recording. (Initially Windows Only)

Improvements

  • Improved transcript timing for cloud and local transcription.
  • Improved screenshot preset layout and status labels.

Fixes

  • Fixed screenshot editor zoom and shape undo behavior.
  • Fixed timeline scrubbing so seeking stays responsive after playback has started.
  • Fixed mixer preview resizing during editor startup.
  • Fixed background music names and audio tab availability.
  • Fixed project opening while recording is starting or in progress.
  • Fixed Windows tray icon updates after system theme changes.
  • Fixed transcript selection near the start or end of a recording.